ruthless

Used with adjective complement

• become: What is also apparent is that the writers of 24 have also become ruthless.
• get: Had one gone in, it would have been game over I'm convinced, City have to get more ruthless.
• appear: His pushing Locque off the cliff, while a ruthless act, hardly makes Moore appear ruthless in my book.
• seem: Most town leaders feared what the Sea Beggars would do to their towns as they seemed as ruthless as the Spanish.

Modifies a noun

• streak: LALD was pure Moore; suave, cool, witty with a ruthless streak.
• dictator: So we had a choice to make: either take the word of a ruthless dictator, or take action to defend America.
• exploitation: Nevertheless, we have to learn that we cannot continue our ruthless exploitation of Nature.
• gangster: Who would dare attack Britain's most ruthless gangster?
• tyrant: Not only are there, and have there been, ruthless tyrants that kill and murder, like King Herod in Jesus ' day.
• suppression: Pombal's whole program, however, was executed by ruthless suppression of all opposition.

Modifying Another Word

• utterly: The partisans had been utterly ruthless with any collaborators they had caught.
• equally: The global economy has been equally ruthless with farmers in other parts of the South.
• totally: The art of using these tools and techniques is in being totally ruthless when it comes to dealing with waste.
• quite: Sky's approach has been quite ruthless in recent months " , explained BECTU Scottish Officer Paul McManus.
• absolutely: Any concessions must be balanced by an absolutely ruthless punishment of those who planned or enabled the hijack bombings.
• fairly: I've been fairly ruthless in my selection, limiting myself to only one poem per author.

Preposition: in

• front: They were ruthless in front of goal scoring 35 times in 12 games.
• pursuit: Ruthless in the pursuit of criminals, he was very mild about their punishment.
• way: Third, new style terrorism is ruthless in a way in which old style terrorism was not.
• defense: Like most feminine peoples, they had no desire to attack others, but were utterly ruthless in defense of the Motherland.